{"product_id":"jewish-odesa-negotiating-identities-and-traditions-in-contemporary-ukraine-paperback-softback-9780253070111","title":"Jewish Odesa; Negotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253070111","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eJewish Odesa\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNegotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMarina Sapritsky-Nahum (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253070111\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 23 July 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e374 pages, 32 b\u0026amp;w photos\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.549 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Marina Sapritsky-Nahum's \u003ci\u003eJewish Odesa: Negotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine\u003c\/i\u003e is an extremely interesting and analytically rich ethnographic study of the Jews in Odesa in the early twenty-first century. Sapritsky-Nahum explores such important issues as the meaning of home and homeland, diaspora, religious revival, Jewish tradition, and the role of the \"Odesa myth\" in the identities of the Jews who reside in the city.  According to this myth, Odesa was a Jewish city because it was open, tolerant of ethnic diversity, and cosmopolitan. That identity began to change after the fall of Communism as Jews primarily from Israel and the United States came to Odesa to introduce new ways of being Jewish. Their efforts were only partially successful, as Odesan Jews struggled with conflicting ways of being Jewish, Russian, and Ukrainian in the post-Soviet world.  Beautifully written, \u003ci\u003eJewish Odesa\u003c\/i\u003e is a serious scholarly book that is utterly accessible to non-specialists.\"—Marsha L. Rozenblit - University of Maryland\u003cbr\u003e \"A beautiful, empathetic, rich ethnographic portrait of Jewish life at a unique moment in the history of a city that has nurtured many, many Jews of world historical significance. The importance of this manuscript as a document of Odessan and post-Soviet Jewish life in the mid 2000s cannot therefore be overstated. . . Its value lies precisely in the prominence given to the voices of the people Sapritsky-Nahum spoke with, and the way in which she weaves their voices into a narrative that engages with bigger processes of political economic dislocation, desecularization, and nation-building and academic debates about them.\"—Tanya Richardson - Wilfrid Laurier University\u003cbr\u003e \"This is an incisive analysis of the home\/diaspora model, sharpened by the inclusion of a short epilogue chapter that considers the ongoing war in Ukraine. Sapritsky-Nahum considers the ways the war has shaped and altered Jewish Odesan perceptions of nationhood and belonging due to their liminal placement between so many categories: Jewish, Odesan, Ukrainian, or Russian-speaking, to name a few.\"—\u003ci\u003eLSE Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJewish Odesa: Negotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine\u003c\/i\u003e explores the rich Jewish history and contemporary Jewish life in Ukraine's port city of Odesa. Long considered both a uniquely cosmopolitan and Jewish place, Odesa's Jewish character has shifted as ethnic and cultural identities have dramatically changed since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the independence of Ukraine. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Drawing on extensive field research, Marina Sapritsky-Nahum examines how the role of Russian language and culture, alongside lingering memories of the Soviet era, have been critically re-evaluated, leading to new forms of expression for Odesa's Jewish community within the broader Ukrainian national context.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJewish Odesa\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how a city once famous for its progressive and secular Jewish traditions has been shaped by migration and altered by competing projects of Jewish revival. Russia's war in Ukraine has further challenged Jewish communal life while simultaneously fostering a deeper sense of Ukrainian-Jewish belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e A Note on Transliteration and Translation\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: A Jew in a Kippah\u003cbr\u003e 1. Historical Background: The Lost, the Revisited, and the Recreated\u003cbr\u003e 2. Remembering the Past and Making Sense of the Present: Narratives of Elderly Jews\u003cbr\u003e 3. From \u003ci\u003eEvrei\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eIudei\u003c\/i\u003e: Turning or Returning to Faith?\u003cbr\u003e 4. Asymmetric Cultural Encounters: Jewish Philanthropy Missions and Revival on Display\u003cbr\u003e 5. \"Jewish Is a Mode of Transportation\": Between Home, Homeland, and Diaspora\u003cbr\u003e 6. Odessa: A Jewish City?\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Negotiating Traditions\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670838472984,"sku":"9780253070111","price":32.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/jewish-odesa-negotiating-identities-and-traditions-in-contemporary-ukraine-paperback-softback-9780253070111","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}